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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter, before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery.

Perplexity hit in Japan – just as it beats Google to AI revenue-share model

Perplexity unveiled its Comet Plus revenue-sharing plan for publishers, a day before new copyright claims in Japan surfaced.

Copilot Chat left VS Code open to arbitrary code execution - GitHub

Copilot Chat for VS Code was vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, enabling data theft and even arbitrary code execution, with no LLMs completely safe.

App dominance, plus $25, to secure Android access under new sideload rules

Stricter rules on package naming will give dominance to established apps on Android, even for sideloading-only packages.

GPT-5 drops (some) API costs, goes head-to-head with Gemini on price

OpenAI messes with pricing structure, now not at all dissimilar to Google's.

Fortinet's one million end-of-life firewalls has investors freaking out a bit

SASE is growing, but analysts are worried refresh cycle on 15-year-old devices

Taiwan reports suggest IBM-linked Japanese JV is criminally keen for 2-nanometre chip secrets

2nm products are lined up, but yields are – mostly – still low.

Sovereignty bet Eutelsat is now at 0.22% of Starlink's capacity, and falling

EU and UK space-sovereignty bet grows headcount faster than LEO constellation

Tesla is so good at AI it may have to "nerf" its chips outside US, Elon Musk tells investors

Tesla is better at AI than Google, says CEO Musk, and its AI5 chip will be too powerful for the US government to allow abroad unaltered.

AI is no cannibal, says IBM, as it boosts Red Hat, Z17, just about everything else

From modernising Cobol to rolling out agents, there's only one business where AI spend comes at the cost of non-AI spend, says IBM. Customer spend on AI – such as a genAI book of business worth $7.5 billion since its inception – is almost never at the cost of

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